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Children and Young Persons Bill [Lords]

Debate on bills on Monday, 16 June 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Hughes of Stretford. The answering member was Tim Loughton.
Children and Young Persons Bill (HL). Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, Report, Third reading and other proceedings. Agreed to on question. Money resolution agreed to on question.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

477 c721-78 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Programme motions
Money resolutions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Edward Timpson | 477 c745-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make what is my maiden speech. I wish to speak br...
Mark Williams | 477 c743 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend fear that some local authorities have hidden behind the term ““exceptional circu...

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Annette Brooke | 477 c743-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I understand the point that we do not want people doing...
Lord Howard of Lympne | 477 c752-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble), who spe...
Helen Southworth | 477 c756-60 (Link to this contribution) I welcome all the steps taken in the Bill, but I think the most important comment that has been made...
Natascha Engel | 477 c755-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in this very important debate, especially as it is ab...
Angela Watkinson | 477 c762 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend suspect that there are occasions when the outcome of an assessment can be inform...
John Bercow | 477 c760-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Warrington, South (Helen Southworth), to whose indefa...
John Bercow | 477 c762-5 (Link to this contribution) There is absolutely no doubt that some judgments are determined on the basis of available resources ...
John Hemming | 477 c768 (Link to this contribution) As time is limited, I will aim to say everything that I want to say in about three minutes to allow ...
David Kidney | 477 c765-8 (Link to this contribution) I must be brief. Like other Members, I heap praise on my noble Friend Lord Adonis, who simply played...
Maria Miller | 477 c771-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Lady for her intervention but, as she pointed out, investment is not enough, ...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 477 c770-1 (Link to this contribution) In trying to paraphrase my words, the hon. Lady needs to recognise the huge improvement that 1997 br...
Maria Miller | 477 c769-70 (Link to this contribution) We have heard throughout the debate agreement on both sides of the House that every child needs a st...
Angela Watkinson | 477 c768-9 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley (John Hemming) for allowing me a coupl...
Kevin Brennan | 477 c775 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, although I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman had only three minutes in which t...
Kevin Brennan | 477 c773-5 (Link to this contribution) We have had a lively, high quality and mainly consensual debate this evening, which is as it should ...
Kevin Brennan | 477 c775-7 (Link to this contribution) I am not getting into a personal dialogue with the hon. Gentleman because I need to refer to other h...
Mark Williams | 477 c727 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State see this provision, which I very much welcome, as a way of alleviating s...
Joan Ryan | 477 c725-6 (Link to this contribution) Foster carers from my constituency came to the House today and wanted to make it clear to me that th...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c726 (Link to this contribution) The scheme that my hon. Friend mentions is itself still relatively new and we are waiting to see the...
Lynda Waltho | 477 c726 (Link to this contribution) There is already ample evidence, particularly from Northern Ireland, of how successful these schemes...
Joan Humble | 477 c724 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the clauses that give more powers and responsibility to independent reviewing officers and...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c724-5 (Link to this contribution) I am well aware that my hon. Friend has long championed this issue and I pay tribute to her role in ...
John Hemming | 477 c725 (Link to this contribution) On independent advocates, whom I have dealt with myself, does the Minister not accept that where the...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c725 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's premise; nor do I think that that does a true service to the pe...
Lord Swire | 477 c723-4 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with interest to the Minister's comments. She will be aware that the heading of claus...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c722-3 (Link to this contribution) I will refer to that shortly, if my hon. Friend will bear with me. In addition to the measures I ha...
Stephen Pound | 477 c722 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way and for the great leadership she has shown in t...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c722 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is equally important. The current provisions allow for the funding of first-time level 2 a...
Bob Spink | 477 c722 (Link to this contribution) On outcomes for children in care, I welcome the provisions on support for those in higher education,...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c722 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend's work, and the expertise that she has acquired in helping us with o...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c721 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Every child should have the right to be hap...
Ann Coffey | 477 c721-2 (Link to this contribution) While I welcome the Bill, I believe that if we are to achieve its central aim of improving outcomes ...
Annette Brooke | 477 c741-2 (Link to this contribution) I do agree. That approach has been missing in many schools despite their having had guidance that th...
Lynda Waltho | 477 c742 (Link to this contribution) I welcome all that the hon. Lady has said, but does she agree that the extension of looked-after sta...
Annette Brooke | 477 c742-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. I shall certainly come on to that point, but at this sta...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 477 c738 (Link to this contribution) I understand what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but it is about a bit more than flexibility. It is a...
Julie Morgan | 477 c738 (Link to this contribution) I have a great deal of sympathy with what my right hon. Friend is saying, and she makes an important...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 477 c738-9 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree with that, and I sometimes think that we have denigrated residential care to damag...
David Kidney | 477 c738 (Link to this contribution) As well as foster carers having the role on which my right hon. Friend has just agreed, does she acc...
Mark Williams | 477 c741 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend also see that role in a school context, to be undertaken by the designated membe...
Annette Brooke | 477 c739-41 (Link to this contribution) We would very much like to welcome the Bill, but obviously we are sad that it has been introduced ag...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 477 c735-8 (Link to this contribution) Before I start, I want to make it clear that I have a relationship with NCH that I have taken up aga...
Tim Loughton | 477 c738 (Link to this contribution) I am following very closely what the right hon. Lady is saying. I visited that children's home in Co...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c728 (Link to this contribution) I am great supporter of the Foyer movement. I agree with my hon. Friend that it makes a great contri...
Tim Loughton | 477 c728-35 (Link to this contribution) We certainly welcome the Bill. This is another year and another children's Bill, and, as with previo...
Bob Spink | 477 c727 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady said ““finally””, but she has not yet mentioned clause 2, which deals with adopt...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c727 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and that is true of all those provisions, including the ones I mentioned on cash payments and g...
David Drew | 477 c728 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foyer movement have a role to play in this, because, in a sense, it has worked as a bridge ...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c727-8 (Link to this contribution) The local authority's functions in relation to adoption are excluded from the functions that social ...
Bob Spink | 477 c727 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the clause deals with the functions of the adoption agency and the responsibility of ...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c727 (Link to this contribution) I am struggling to understand what the hon. Gentleman is referring to, because clause 2 is in the se...
Joan Humble | 477 c748-52 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mr. Timpson) on his speech. I especially appl...
John Hemming | 477 c775 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is saying that best value 163 was scrapped at the end of 2005-06. Does he not agree tha...
Kevin Brennan | 477 c775 (Link to this contribution) As I have pointed out to the hon. Gentleman on many occasions, there were no financial targets attac...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c726 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that and I join her in paying tribute to the fantastic work that foster c...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 477 c724 (Link to this contribution) More might need to be done to raise the level of awareness and consciousness among social workers, a...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 477 c738 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree, and I believe that it is possible. When it works, it is empowering for foster pa...

Subjects

Disability
Children
Assessments
Children in care
Care homes
Adoption
Disadvantaged
Death
Children's rights
Advocacy
Finance
Foster care
Inspections
Higher education
Grandparents
Pilot schemes
Protection
Parents
Mental health services
Standards
Special educational needs
Young people
Young offenders
Runaway children
Social workers
Care leavers

Legislation

Children and Young Persons Bill (HL) 2007-08

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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